Republican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers says it’s time for Congress to put net neutrality protections into law. McMorris Rodgers, of Washington state, last month introduced legislation to restore net neutrality safeguards that the Republican-led Federal Communications Commission dismantled in late 2017. In an interview with CNET, she said politicians on both sides of the aisles …

Rep. Mike Doyle, who’s shepherding the Democrats’ bill in the House of Representatives to restore the Obama-era net neutrality protections, says he’s not waiting for Republican support before bringing the proposed legislation to a vote. In an interview with CNET, the Democrat from Pennsylvania, who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s subcommittee on communications and technology, criticized his colleagues …

The Federal Communications Commission is paving the way for 6G and beyond. On Friday, the agency unanimously voted to open up “terahertz wave” spectrum that could one day be used for 6G services. The spectrum, which falls in the 95 gigahertz (GHz) to 3 terahertz (THz) range, will be open for experimental use to let engineers dreaming of the next …

Republicans and Democrats faced off Tuesday in a House hearing on the Democrats’ plan to restore Obama-era net neutrality protections. The hearing before a subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee House examined the Save the Internet Act, which Democrats introduced last week in the House and Senate. Out of the gate, Republicans on the subcommittee blasted Democrats, who …

Executives from T-Mobile and Sprint faced yet another grilling from House Democrats in a hearing Tuesday on Capitol Hill. This time CEO John Legere and Sprint Executive Chairman Marcelo Claure were testifying before a House judiciary subcommittee on antitrust to explain how their proposed $26.5 billion merger won’t result in higher prices for consumers and hurt American jobs. Legere was …

Three decades ago, a young computer scientist named Tim Berners-Lee proposed an internet-based hyperlink system to allow the sharing of information among different computers, forever changing how people communicate and use the net. The idea behind what would become known as the World Wide Web was both simple and lofty, he told an audience Tuesday at an event marking the …

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday warned there could be issues for American companies operating in countries that are using 5G gear from Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei. Pompeo made the comments during a press conference in Manila, where he reiterated security concerns the US has with network operators using Huawei gear to build the next generation of …

The cloud of legal uncertainty surrounding AT&T’s merger with Time Warner has lifted. A US Appeals Court on Tuesday rejected a bid to unwind the merger between the companies. The merger was completed last year, following a six-week trial in which the US Department of Justice failed to convince a trial judge that the $85 billion merger would curtail competition and …

Verizon is asking the Federal Communications Commission for permission to lock new phones it sells in an effort to curb the growing problem of customer identity theft. The nation’s largest wireless carrier filed a petition with the agency on Friday asking the FCC to grant it a waiver so that it can start locking new phones it sells to consumers …

It’s never too early to be thinking of the next, next generation of wireless. At least that’s the stance President Donald Trump is taking. In a pair of tweets Thursday, Trump proclaimed he’d like to see “5G and even 6G technology” deployed in the US “as soon as possible.” In not so many words, he pretty much told US carriers …